{"id":2814,"date":"2006-05-10T19:38:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T23:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2007-09-08T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T02:04:51","slug":"ess-meltdown-west-virgina-files-formal-complaint-with-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2814","title":{"rendered":"ES&S MELTDOWN: West Virgina Files Formal Complaint with Feds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by John Gideon<\/i><\/p>\n

Just hours ago Betty Ireland, the Secretary of State of West Virginia filed a formal complaint against ES&S with the federal Elections Assistance Commission. A story<\/a> in the State Journal<\/i> quotes Secretary Ireland:<\/p>\n

“I am more than upset that or county clerks and their staffs and county commissions had to withstand stress and anxiety over the broken promises and delays ES&S put them through”.<\/p>\n

“And, Ireland says, now that the election is over, strategy talks about the problems with Election Systems and Software will begin…but, “We will not and cannot discuss publicly our legal strategy. As before, we continue to work with the Attorney General’s Office to address our options”.”<\/p>\n

“The state’s selection committee chose ES&S because of it’s past service in the state and it’s knowledge of West Virginia election deadlines and procedures. Ireland says, “Unfortunately, we now feel ES&S let West Virginia down”.”<\/p><\/div>\n

There have been failures all over the state. A small sampling of problems gives us:<\/p>\n

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  • Taylor County’s votes could not be counted last night because the main computer would not read tabulators from individual voting machines.<\/li>\n
  • Upshur County’s counter was in such bad shape that as of midnight the county was trying to get a similar machine from a neighboring county<\/li>\n
  • Mineral County’s optical scan ballot counter was producing skewed results<\/li>\n
  • Ohio County could not count about 800 absentee votes because it was not given the equipment to do so<\/li>\n

    – and ? <\/p>\n

  • Clay, Gilmer, Greenbrier, Putnam, McDowell and Webster that all violated provisions of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 when they were not able provide any voting machines for their voters with disabilities.<\/li>\n<\/div>\n

    The national media? Mums the word for them, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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